Welsh football bosses are refusing to dwell on their shock Euro 2020 snub by stepping up attempts to bring the Champions League final to Cardiff.

Wales’ dreams of co-staging the European Championships in six years’ time were brutally knocked back in Geneva on Friday when the Millennium Stadium was denied the chance of hosting group games and a knock-out fixture by a solitary vote.

While Wembley was confirmed as the venue for the final and semi-finals of the one-off pan-continental staging of the tournament, the FA of Wales’ bids for three group games and a knock-out fixture was undone when Uefa president Michel Platini revealed the executive committee had given the green-light to rivals Dublin and Glasgow.

Despite Welsh lobbying attempts, Uefa had seemed intent on selecting only two of the three celtic bids on the basis of geography – meaning the likes of Baku, Budapest and Bucharest all were granted games as Wales missed out as they scored just one point less than direct opponent Scotland.

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The blow was even harsher considering four of the bids from the 19 hopeful associations– the ones from Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Israel – were red-lined after reports meaning only Wales and Sweden were left without fixtures.

The FAW admitted their deep disappointment following the news but it is now thought they will press their case to land a Champions League final as a means of making up for the snub.

It is understood Welsh bid chiefs had already been pushing Cardiff’s name as a potential venue for the globe’s grandest club game – won last year by Real Madrid with Gareth Bale getting a decisive goal in the Lisbon final.

With the staging of the recent Super Cup at Cardiff City Stadium deemed a success by Uefa, FAW chiefs are now looking to try and convince the stadium and the city can handle the infrastructure demands of the governing body’s showpiece final.

There is a thought Platini could be in favour of taking the game to Cardiff having given positive feedback of Wales’ bid although it remains to be seen whether the FAW will be keen to go through another bidding process having dedicated a lot of energy to their Euro 2020 vision only to be overlooked.

UEFA’s executive members voted by ranking the bids in order of preference and the result revealed that Cardiff lost out to Glasgow by a single point, with the Scottish bid getting 22 ranking points and the Welsh 21.

Football Association of Wales chief executive Jonathan Ford said: “We are bitterly disappointed but on the technical side we could not have put in a better bid.”

Ford added: “We have always talked to UEFA about other events and certainly I would hope with so many cities being used in 2016, 2018 and 2020 there will be other cities chosen to stage major events and that Wales will have one of those.”a